Pantaloons



F. H. GARNEY. Pantalogns.

Patehted June 1,1880.

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NITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

FRANCIS H. GARNEY, OF OAMBRIDGEPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

PANTALOONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,246, dated June 1, 1880.

Application filed December 26, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS H. GARNEY, of Oambridgeport, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Trousers; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a front View, and Figs. 2 and 3 longitudinal sections, of trousers provided with my invention. Fig. 4 is a side view, on an enlarged scale, of one of the leg-lifters, to be hereinafter explained.

The object of my said invention or improvein cut is to prevent the necessity of turning or folding up each leg of the trousers at its lower part in order to prevent it from being soiled while the wearer may be walking on a muddy surface or street.

In carrying out my invention I provide the trousers at opposite parts of the waist or body portion thereof with mechanism or devices for lifting, relatively to the waist or body portion, each of the legs of said trousers a little, and supporting it while so lifted, in order that when a person wearing the garment may be walking the trouser-legs may be out of contact with the ground, or raised above such, so as not to be muddied or soiled thereby.

In the drawings, a denotes the waist or body portion, and I) b the legs, of a garment of the kind mentioned. I

In the waist, or at or near the upper part of each side seam, is fixed an eye or eyelet, 0, through which whatI term the lifter, B, is ex tended. This lifter consists of a short chain or cord, 0, fixed at its lower end to the trouser-leg, at or near the side seam thereof, and extended upward through the eye or eyelet c, and terminating at its upper end in, or having fixed thereto, a cross-bar, button, or handle, d, having a length or diameter, as the case may be, greater than that of the bore of the eye or eyelet, the said chain or cord being fastened to the button or cross-bar at the middle thereof. Furthermore, the chain or cord between its two ends has applied to it one or more buttoning or cross bars,f,.and is extended through each from the middle to one of the ends of it, as shown, the buttoning-piece being fastened to the chain or cord so as to be immovable thereon lengthwise of it.

On taking hold of the handle or upper crossbar and pulling it upward each of the buttoning-bars in succession may be drawn through the eye or eyelet, and the trouser-leg will be correspondinglylifted relatively to the waist. 0n the handle being let go of, the buttoningbar last drawn through the eye or eyelet will extend across it, and, with such eyelet and the cord, will hold or preserve the leg in its lifted state. In order to drop the leg the lifter should be raised a little and the buttoning-bar turned back through the eye or eyelet.

I claim as my invention as follows:

1. Trousers provided at opposite parts of the waist or body portion with mechanism or devices for lifting and supporting, as described,

relatively to the waist or body portion, the legs,

all being substantially and for the purpose set forth.

2. Each trouser leg lifter, consisting of the chain or cord 0 and the handle or cross-head (I, connected at or near its middle to the upper part of such chain or cord, and also of one or more buttoning-bars,f, having the cord or chain extended through such at its middle and out at one end of it, and fastened to it, as described.

FRANCIS H. OARNEY.

Witnesses:

It. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

